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I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete. -- Jessica Ennis
Nothing will work unless you do. -- Maya Angelou
The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself! -- Franz Stampfl
Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer -- John Kruk
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? -- Vince Lombardi
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. -- Babe Ruth
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. -- Bo Jackson
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. -- Arnold Palmer
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. -- Vince Lombardi
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. -- Knute Rockne
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -- John Wooden
I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist. -- Jon Jones
Athlete or not, Iâ??m going to make sure you know how to read. -- David Lubar
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. -- Marilyn vos Savant
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. -- Muhammad Ali
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. -- Confucius
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. -- Mike Singletary
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. -- John Wooden
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. -- Dean Karnazes
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. -- Satchel Paige
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. -- Tim Duncan
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. -- Wayne Gretzky
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' -- Muhammad Ali
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. -- Jesse Owens
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way. -- Jim Courier
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. -- Arnold Palmer
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -- Michael Jordan
I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player. -- John Kruk
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers. -- Al Pacino
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality. -- Gabrielle Reece
If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete. -- Patrick Chan
I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young. -- Dominique Dawes
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. -- Germaine Greer
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. -- Chris Cleave
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. -- Derek Jeter
I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens. -- Maika Monroe
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is. -- Walter Payton
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person. -- Carl Lewis
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. -- Martha Graham
Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes. -- Lou Holtz
I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for. -- Emmitt Smith
The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel. -- Zig Ziglar
I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendary. -- Jose Canseco
When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice. -- Don Kardong
Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle. -- Channing Tatum
As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance? -- Michael Porter
You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day. -- Paula Radcliffe
To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It's often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It's the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life. -- Andrew Luck
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that. -- Nick Saban
I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast. -- Michael Weatherly
When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother. -- George Foreman
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. -- Al Pacino
I'm a golfer - not an athlete. -- Lee Westwood
I just wanted to be an athlete. -- Merlin Olsen
Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry. -- Pat Conroy
Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete. -- Lindsey Vonn
The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist. -- Marty Liquori
No athlete works harder than Floyd Mayweather. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I think a great athlete transcends eras. -- Dan Jenkins
I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person. -- Libby Trickett
I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. -- Shawn Johnson
I think I was a pretty selfish athlete. -- Melanie Roach
Being an athlete, you try to get protein. -- Ronda Rousey
The actor is an athlete of the heart. -- Antonin Artaud
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete -- Bill Russell
Attitude might be worth 80 percent of any athlete's makeup. -- Erk Russell
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete. -- Edwin Moses
An athlete needs to read situations before they happen. -- Dwyane Wade
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. -- John Kruk
For me, I've lived a life as an athlete. -- Giancarlo Esposito
Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete. -- Sharon Jones
The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty. -- Paavo Nurmi
And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever. -- Jim Otto
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. -- Bill Russell
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete. -- Dennis Rodman
If you have a body, you are an athlete! -- Bill Bowerman
The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage. -- Plato
In high school and college, I was an athlete. -- David Duchovny
I am here to put out a positive athlete, -- Calvin Johnson
I was an athlete when I was growing up. -- Jeremy Renner
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete. -- Oscar Robertson
I'm an athlete who's very determined and I understand sacrifice. -- Allyson Felix
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete. -- Bill Bowerman
I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete. -- Artie Lange
Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams. -- Milagros Cabral
Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor. -- Michael B. Jordan
Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete. -- Michael Diamond
I want to know about what makes an athlete tick. -- Lisa Guerrero
Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships. -- Franz Stampfl
The true athlete should have character, not be a character -- John Wooden
In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever. -- Marion Jones
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal. -- Pat Summitt
Give me an athlete and I'll give you an army. -- Adolf Hitler
I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete. -- Usain Bolt
For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over. -- Terry Bradshaw
I always had that desire to become a great athlete. -- Lauren Jackson
I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs. -- Willie Carson
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter! -- Eve Arden
I'm not a woman that's an athlete! I'm an athlete! -- Skylar Diggins
I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete. -- Kyle Shewfelt
I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer. -- Lisa Guerrero
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. -- Bill Bowerman
Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves. -- Hope Solo
Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure. -- Geena Davis
In an athlete, it is not the legs that go first -- Ken Dryden
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. -- St. Jerome
No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete. -- John Grisham
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired. -- Faye Dunaway
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. -- Bill Shoemaker
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete. -- Bo Jackson
As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity. -- Michael Johnson
Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication. -- Michael Diamond
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. -- Carl Lewis
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. -- Pierre de Coubertin
You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives! -- Bela Karolyi
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning. -- Irving Stone
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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